New Zealand's Hikurangi Plateau was once part of a gargantuan volcanic mountain that covered 1% of Earth's surface. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

A fiery mystery has puzzled geologists for decades: where did the lava fueling one of Earth’s largest volcanic events come from? A new study may finally have the answer. Scientists have long believed ...

A mysterious find on Easter Island, investigated by a team of geologists, suggests that the Earth's mantle seems to behave differently than once thought. Geography textbooks describe the Earth's ...

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface tells a story of volcanism that began roughly 2.5 million years ago, but ...

The Earth's mantle might not always move along in lockstep with the overlying tectonic crust—as set out in science textbooks for decades—but may instead behave differently. This is the conclusion of ...

Table Land's formation dates back to ancient volcanic activity, which created this expansive plateau. Unlike other hill stations that are characterised by lush greenery and forested slopes, Table Land ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. – The Ontong Java Plateau, a volcanically-formed underwater plateau located in the Pacific Ocean north of the Solomon Islands, is younger and its eruption was more protracted than ...

A scientific team unveils the secrets of the Melanesian Border Plateau, a colossal underwater plateau in the Pacific Ocean, larger than Idaho, that has been growing since the age of dinosaurs. Using ...

Geography textbooks describe the Earth's mantle beneath its plates as a well-mixed viscous rock that moves along with those plates like a conveyor belt. But that idea, first set out some 100 years ago ...